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The Computer Journal 1973 16(3):226-231; doi:10.1093/comjnl/16.3.226
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A method of software evaluation: the case of programming language translators

H. C. Lucas, Jr.1 * and L. Presser2 §

1 Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA

This paper presents a method for the specification and evaluation of software modules. The proposed strategy involves the use of existing documentation and synthetic or benchmark programs to evaluate a set of key characteristics that represent the module under consideration. The method if discussed and illustrated by considering the evaluation of programming language translators in detail. An example demonstrates how the method is applied to the evaluation of the popular WATFIV FORTRAN compiler.

Received August 1972.

* Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.

§ Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA. (This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation, Grant GJ-31949.)


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